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University Of South Carolina President Resigns After Plagiarizing Commencement Speech

The crowd gasped when Robert Caslen, a former Army flag officer, called the graduating students "the newest alumni of the University of California." But his bungled speech didn't stop there.

Seniors at the University of South Carolina had already dealt with one disaster — the pandemic — when they took their socially distanced seats at the school's commencement ceremony last weekend.

Then came another trainwreck.

The university's president, Robert Caslen, delivered so bungled — with the wrong school name and closing remarks lifted

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